The Unimaginable Zero Summer · Wilderun

328 bars of 4/4 at 115 BPM, about 10:56 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

90 to 119 BPMShuffle / triplet
TEMPO
115 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
328
LENGTH
10:56
DIFFICULTY
74/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 10% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5-12, 18-20 and 160-162, and 2 more places -- 9.6% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 115 BPM
THE UNIMAGINABLE ZERO SUMMER · BAR 6
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

24 fills to learn, played 42 times: bars 16, 26, 37, 38, 39, 40 and 36 more.

LOOP · 115 BPM
BAR 16 · LANDS ON BAR 17
LOOP · 115 BPM
BAR 26 · LANDS ON BAR 27
LOOP · 115 BPM
BARS 37-41 · LANDS ON BAR 42 · PLAYED 5 TIMES

21 more fills are written out on the fills page.

THE SHAPE

How the song is built

328 bars across 31 sections: 142 keep time, 42 are fills, 3 are stops and 119 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 47-67.

CHORUS
BREAK 5
PART BD
23 groovesS27FPEBD+18Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is The Unimaginable Zero Summer?

115 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. The room plays it at any tempo from a quarter of that up to the written one, against the record where the record can follow.

Is The Unimaginable Zero Summer hard to play on drums?

74 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 99 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

328 bars, about 10:56 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 93 exercises over 30 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in The Unimaginable Zero Summer?

24 fills to learn, played 42 times: bars 16, 26, 37, 38, 39, 40 and 36 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 328 BARS ANALYSED
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